PRECIPITATELY
PRECIP'ITATELY, adverb Headlong; with steep descent.1. Hastily; with rash haste; without due caution. Neither praise nor censure precipitately
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PRECIPITATING
PRECIP'ITATING, participle present tense Throwing headlong; hurrying; hastening rashly.
PRECIPITATION
PRECIPITA'TION, noun [Latin proecipitatio.]1. The act of throwing headlong.2. A falling, flowing or rushing down with violence and rapidity.The hurry, precipitation and rapid mo...
PRECIPITATOR
PRECIP'ITATOR, noun One that urges on with vehemence or rashness.
PRECIPITOUS
PRECIP'ITOUS, adjective [Latin proeceps.] Very steep; as a precipitous cliff or mountain.1. Headlong; directly or rapidly descending; as a precipitous fall.2. Hasty; rash; heady...
PRECIPITOUSLY
PRECIP'ITOUSLY, adverb With steep descent; in violent haste.
PRECIPITOUSNESS
PRECIP'ITOUSNESS, noun Steepness of descent.1. Rash haste.
PRECIPTANCY
PRECIP'TANCY, noun [from precipitant.] Headlong hurry; rash haste; haste in resolving, forming an opinion or executing a purpose without due deliberation.Hurried on by the preci...
PRECISE
PRECI'SE, adjective [Latin proecisus, from proecido, to cut off; proe and coedo; literally, cut or pared away, that is, pared to smoothness or exactness.]1. Exact; nice; definit...
PRECISELY
PRECI'SELY, adverb Exactly; nicely; accurately; in exact conformity to truth or to a model. The ideas are precisely expressed. The time of an eclipse may be precisely determined...
PRECISENESS
PRECI'SENESS, noun Exactness; rigid nicety; as the preciseness of words or expressions.I will distinguish the cases; though give me leave, in handling them, not to sever them wi...
PRECISIAN
PRECI'SIAN, noun s as z. One that limits or restrains.1. One who is rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules.
PRECISIANISM
PRECI'SIANISM, noun Excessive exactness; superstitious rigor.[These two words are, I believe, little used, or not at all.]
PRECISION
PRECI'SION, noun s as z. [Latin proecisio.] Exact limitation; exactness; accuracy. precision in the use of words is a prime excellence in discourse; it is indispensable in contr...
PRECISIVE
PRECI'SIVE, adjective Exactly limiting by separating what is not relative to the purpose; as precisive abstraction.
PRECLUDE
PRECLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin proecludo; proe, before, and cludo, claudo, to shut.]1. To prevent from entering by previously shutting the passage, or by any previous measure...
PRECLUDED
PRECLU'DED, participle passive Hindered from entering or enjoyment; debarred from something by previous obstacles.
PRECLUDING
PRECLU'DING, participle present tense Shutting out; preventing from access or possession or from having place.
PRECLUSION
PRECLU'SION, noun s as z. The act of shutting out or preventing from access or possession; the state of being prevented from entering, possession or enjoyment.
PRECLUSIVE
PRECLU'SIVE, adjective Shutting out, or tending to preclude; hindering by previous obstacles.
PRECLUSIVELY
PRECLU'SIVELY, adverb With hinderance by anticipation.
PRECOCIOUS
PRECO'CIOUS, adjective [Latin proecox; proe, before, and coquo, to cook or prepare.]1. Ripe before the proper or natural time; as precocious trees.2. Premature.
PRECOCIOUSNESS
PRECO'CIOUSNESSPRECOC'ITY, noun Rapid growth and ripeness before the usual time; prematureness.I cannot learn that he gave, in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which so...
PRECOCITY
PRECOC'ITY, n. Rapid growth and ripeness before the usual time; prematureness.I cannot learn that he gave, in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distingui...
PRECOGITATE
PRECOG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin proecogito; proe and cogito.]To consider or contrive beforehand. [Little used.]
PRECOGITATION
PRECOGITA'TION, noun Previous thought or consideration.
PRECOGNITA
PRECOGNITA. [See Proecognita.]